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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: Can we have more information? That is incredibly disappointing. What is happening to the 21 people on the drug now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: It is running out this month.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: Will we be able to obtain information on why it was turned down?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: It is just very surprising. The drug has been passed in Italy, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, the Netherlands and Spain, and it is under consideration in Britain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: I understand. There is something there we do not really need to talk about. I understand that there has to be a balance in regard to this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: I mean that the Minister cannot get involved in the decision-making process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: Of course we should talk about it. I presume this is a matter that can be reviewed pretty quickly if there is different engagement in regard to the parameters applied by the drug company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: Is it that it is not a cost issue but more a question of clinical benefit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: The Minister has twice confirmed to me in writing that there will be no cuts in services. I would like to make a point about the non-critical transport services.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: Yes. I see a significant role for such vehicles. It was outlined that they would be in place, but they are basically non-existent in the mid-west, for example. They are not available when they are needed. I encourage those who are taking part in conversations as part of the review to consider the role of those vehicles. The Chair knows about the position in the mid-west, with which we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: I think it is critical. I thank Mr. O'Brien for his answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: I just want to know whether they are inter-operable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: I am greatly interested in the public services card because I was involved in the development of the Leap card. I was absolutely shocked to hear that we are creating a new health number rather than using the PPS number. I still think it is wrong. In fact, it is crazy. Can the public services card be used to access all the health information of someone on the side of the road?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: If I am unconscious on the side of the road after an accident, will a paramedic who has taken out my wallet and found my public services card because he needs to find out everything about me be able to go into the health system and pull out all the information he needs in relation to me?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: I understand that. I thank Mr. Breslin.
- Topical Issue Debate: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He is one of the most honourable people in here, but the reply supplied by his Department is the same garbage that departmental officials supplied to me, Deputy Burke and others at last week's Committee of Public Accounts meeting. It does not get to the nub of the issue. It is washing its hands of it. It is letting down the owners, breeders,...
- Topical Issue Debate: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: The decision last week to sell Harold's Cross racecourse was the last straw for many. The board of Harold's Cross were not consulted. Those who have contributed to the industry for generations are sick and tired of the way the Irish Greyhound Board is running this industry. Frankly speaking, it is running it into the toilet. It is a basket case at this stage. The level of debt is...
- Topical Issue Debate: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2017)
Alan Kelly: Running away, maybe.